Seeing CR. Stecyk doing Rat Bones tags in Future-Primitive video so far i could remember. Then guys in my neighborhood, Capone, Cesar, Bronco, Arsenic, Torpe, Senior… After that i guess for the thrill of it, doing something most people didn’t understand, being an outcast and existing amongst my peers.

People called what i’ve done “Galactic Style” for a long time but for me it’s outdated and over-played. My friends used to say i’m “Heavy Metal”…mostly because of my angular and aggressive forms Somehow I’m trying to perpetuate the spirit of the old paris style (80’s) adding to it a modern « Ultra » touch. Basically i don’t paint plain flat colors, but mostly vapours and fades with stock (standard) caps.

Then, it was sometimes around the mid of the year 1988, my friends (Edc : Ecole Du Crime) and I were already doing a few tags in our neighborhood while skateboarding or zoning and one day we found out that a discount store is selling cheap retouching car spray paints, we bought a bunch of these and go find a place to make our first “real piece”. I have already some sketches drawn and we decided to pick one of my Funcrimes and so i did my first ever Graffiti-piece.

I remember how much i immediatly loved doing this even if it was a crappy piece of shit. I loved this sensation of taking a public space without asking nobody. For the next month to come i did a few day and night, and then quickly try to found out new styles and skills. Since that day i never stopped doing this, it brings me almost everything i got today somehow. After almost 30 years (i’m scared to write this!!!), i still enjoy doing it like day one.

Paris was a long time capital of the euro-graffiti with a whole bunch of killer crews and writers. I won’t lie on the fact im kinda nostalgic of the 90’s but we still have a few really talented and motivated people here.

Unfortunately there’s not that much spot these days in the center and close suburbs because of the massive wave of construction and re-habilitation, the increasing price of the estates. It stills a beautiful lovely city and you could always found a place to paint like any city in the world if you really want to do it.